The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-10
DIR. TALMAeE ON HIGH LICENSE.

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outlawed, not legalized Surprised
that decent men can be dupeG by
this compromise with the devil.
The alcoholic slaughter of hundreds
of thousands every year put into in
significance all the railroad accidents,
aud shipwrecks, and choleras, and yell
low fevers, aud earthquakes and now,
while all our cities are standing hast
at the moral aud social devastation of
drunkenness, aud saloons are multi.
plying by the hundreds, aud liquor.
selling associations are becoming more !
defiant, the Legislature of New York,
with no moral courage to combat the
evil by decisive legislation, is delib-
Grating whether or not il had better
propose an imbecile compromise which
is called high license. In other words,
it proposes to say: All you poor rum.
sellers, who can only pay small Ii
ceuse, must quit, and all you who can
pay $500 or 81 900 may go on with a
business that is the damnation of so
ciety. am amazed that good men
should be deluded with this compro.
mise with the devil. Oh, some one
says, it is impossible to execute pro-
hibtory law, and as we can't eject the
evil let us put upon it this one brake
The fact that you cannot execute fully
law, is no reason why you should
have law. Which one of your laws
is fully executed? You have a law
against Sabbath. breaking, yet multi.
tudes offend it every Sunday. We
have law sgainst blasphemy, but
all our jails are full of burglars high
waymen. There is law against MUIR
der, but there are murderers in ali our
prisons. Since we have not been able
to stop these evils Of theft and arson,
and blasphemy and murder, why not
compromise the matter and have a
high license? Give to certain men all
the privilege of stealing and swearing
and massacre. Get ready your Excise
Commissioners. Let US have $4,000
or $4,000 tax for the business Of
/ theft. Let us put an end to those
small scoundrels who have genius
enough only to steal house mats OF
postage stamps or chocolate drops, and
confine the business to those who, hav
ing paid $4,000 or $4,000 for genteel
robbery, can abscond with $4,000
from bank. or who, by watering the
stock of railroad company, steal
100000 at one clip. would put q
}. very high license on theft, say $4,000
for they would soon make it up. We
are fearfully opposed to sneak thieves
/. aud wharf.rats and twopenny scoun
). drels, but all hail two million dollar
q .rascalsl So, also, let us by high 81:
cense put ubayn blaspbe3y. Let US
! shut up the great masses of the foul.
mouthed, and by the high license of
$4,000 let few men do all the swear.
ing of the community. Let US select,
say 40, of the most impulsive men of
Brooklyn, men of the highest tempers
and the hottest tongues and the most
spiteful against God. Let these es-
, pecially delegated men for a high Ii
ceuse of $4,000 be allowed to do all
the profanity and have full sweep,
while we beat down aud sweep out of
) the community with the besom of de.
struction all those who swear on a
small scale and have not got beyond
"By George" ''My stars" or "Darn
: it," ExtirpatiOu for all small swear.
t, ers! You will never put down bias
phemy in this country except by high
license. So, also, let murder be Ii.
r censed. The present law does not do
S many persons having committed mur.
It der all over the land going scot free
= The only way you will ever put au
o end to murder in this country is by
+ high license; put few men to man
age the whole business. This common
o herd of assassins who do the worh
IS with car hooks and dull knives anf
. paris green must be put down. and le
9 a few experts who can do the thing
!, without pain and by chloroform o.
g flash of bull dog revolver can genteel
ly put the victim out of his earthly
misfortunes-let them have all th,
rs business. OF course, that licens
"a "a ought to be as high as 10000, be
is cause the perquis lies of gold watche
is is and money safes and pletboric pocket
Is Is books would soon pay the high licens
/. and leave a handsome sum for ne
profit. You see at a glance, all iron
aside, that if rum,selling is right W
r all ought to have the privilege of en-
to gagiDg in it, and if it be wrong, S5,
7e 100000 paid down in hard cash as
le W yearly license ought to purchase n
4 immunity And vet AT this late ne